The new Apple iMacs, released in
October 2009 have been much maligned for quality control issues,
including broken
screens, failure to boot, graphical glitches, and, most recently,
yellowed
screens. However, it's important to note that they've also
been a terrific sales success story for Apple, topping desktop sales
charts in Q4 2009. Customers who haven't suffered problems have
fallen in love with the improved hardware, seamless aluminum
enclosure, and edge-to-edge glass design.

That said, Apple
seems to be enduring more struggles with the popular model.
About a week ago, Apple had said that it was shipping iMacs within
less than a week from the order time. Now it says the delay on
27-inch units has been pushed
to three weeks according to Apple Insider. The
27-inch unit features a better GPU (ATI Radeon HD 4850) and offers
the 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor as a customization
option (these options are not available for the 21-inch unit.

Demand
likely is playing a heavy factor. Apple may also be trying to
weed out "lemons" -- iMacs with screen yellowing that are
reportedly quite abundant. Apple in December pushed the delay
window for 2 weeks, following reports of graphical issues, chiefly
affecting the new 27-inch iMac. Apple has released
a patch to fix this problem, and since has been delivering on a
quicker timeframe.

Those problems may actually be playing a
role in the delay, in addition to the demand and yellowing issues.
Many users on the Apple's customer support forums [1]
[2]
say that the graphics patch did not fix their issues.

Apple is
constantly trying innovative case designs and packing hardware in
tight spaces, but recent issues with the MacBook Pros and iMac series
have illustrated that quality issues can bedevil such unproven
efforts. Apple has not officially addressed these recent
quality slippages on a whole, but its surely a major concern for the
company, which has built a small, but significant market share based
largely on a strong
brand image.

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This is based on the assumption that all of the 27" iMacs ship with yellow tinted screens. Mine doesn't have it, my friend's doesn't have it, and none of the ones I've seen in offices or retailers that I've seen (Apple Store, Best Buy, my indie retailer) have it.

A small percentage of iMacs have them. Its a good thing this is being taken care of since they are clearly out there, same as Microsoft replacing faulty XBox 360s (I'm on my third, which is par for the course among my friends) but to say that a large percentage of iMacs ship with yellow IPS panels is FUD, plain and simple.